A sustainable factory farm that spits out crickets

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"Crickets are a delectable, affordable, and environmentally friendly protein source already eaten in some parts of the world. Now the trick is producing them for the masses.

His wife once threatened to kick him out, his landlord might evict him, and he could go broke. But Jakub Dzamba, a Ph.D. student in architecture at McGill University and founder of a company called Third Millennium Farming, is nevertheless on a mission to popularize a farming system for a food that sometimes makes even his advisors flinch: crickets."

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McGill Office of Sustainability

McGill University is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg nations. McGill honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we meet today.